Xorg and nVidia GeForce 8200 (MCP78S) - a better driver than vesa?

[Yuri Pankov]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:43:10PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> A small update on the situation.
> 
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:32:37 +0100
> Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> 
> > Currently I am using the vesa driver, which works.
> > Do anyone know of a way to get a better Xorg driver working?
> 
> Another workaround: I had a nVidia GeForce 8500 GT gfx card laying
> about, so I used that. At least the Xorg 'nv' driver uses it. But I
> don't know if it is any better than using the 'vesa' driver:
> root at kg-v2# DISPLAY=:0.0 xvinfo
> X-Video Extension version 2.2
> screen #0
>  no adaptors present
> root at kg-v2# DISPLAY=:0.0 xdriinfo
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> Screen 0: not direct rendering capable.
> 
> > References:
> > 1) http://tingox.googlepages.com/asus_v2-m3n8200
> -- 
> Torfinn

You could try adding PCI id of your 8200 gfx card to src/nv_driver.c in
xf86-video-nv sources.

And, according to the author of nv driver, it doesn't support Xv
extension on all G8x GPUs. [1]

[1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11586#c2


HTH,
Yuri